Archive for July, 2007
La France, terre d’accueil
Friday, July 13th, 2007Un graphique intéressant, trouvé sur le blog de Jean-Marc Manach (le journaliste qui a interviewé Samuel Hocevar aux RMLL pour Le Monde): Je sais pas vous, mais je trouve ça assez triste, moi, tous ces gens prêts à énormément de sacrifices pour venir dans notre pays, qu’on rejette comme de la merde. A propos, avez-vous [...]
Collaborative Maintenance
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Stefano Zacchiroli blogs his thoughts about collaborative maintenance. He identifies two arguments/religions about it: it is good because duties are shared among co-maintainers it is bad because no one feels responsible for the co-maintained packages And he says he stand for the first one. I’m not sure that those two positions really contradict. Sure, collaborative [...]
Easy migration of a service to another, totally different host with iptables
Monday, July 9th, 2007I’m tired of googling for this every time I need it, so I’m blogging about it. Q: How can one redirect all connections to hostA:portA to hostB:portB, where hostA and hostB and in totally different parts of the Internet? A: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward $IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport portA -j DNAT [...]
How do archive rebuilds and piuparts tests on Grid’5000 work?
Thursday, July 5th, 2007With the development of rebuildd and the fact that several people are interested in re-using my scripts, I feel the need to explain how this stuff works. Grid’5000 First, Grid’5000 is a research platform used to study computer grids. It’s not really a grid (it doesn’t use all the classic grid middleware such as Globus). [...]